Story+2009-06-05+Stockholm,+Sweden

“(?)…come on, let’s road trip…”
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Darlington County”**

“Hej Stockholm! (crowd cheers) hej Sverige! (crowd cheers) vi är tillbaka (?)(crowd cheers) ingen regn ikväll* (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here in Stockholm tonight (crowd cheers) now the E Street Band has come thousands and thousands of miles to fulfil our solemn promise to rock the house (crowd cheers) we are here tonight to make some Swedish people crazy (crowd cheers) that’s right…we ain’t here tonight just to rock the house…we come down here to build a house right here on this field and in these seats and on this stage…we’re gonna take the fear that’s out there and we’re gonna build us a house of love tonight (crowd cheers) because that’s there too…we’re gonna take the despair that’s out there and we’re gonna build us a house of hope tonight because that’s there too, we’re gonna take the doubt that’s out there and we’re gonna build us a house of faith here tonight (crowd cheers) because that’s there too, we’re gonna take the sadness and the blues and we’re gonna build us a house of joy and happiness right here on this spot (crowd cheers) and then we’re gonna take the cooling off and we’re gonna build us a house of sexual healing! (crowd cheers) that’s right…and we use the bad wood and we use the good wood…and we use the bad news that’s out there and we use the good news that’s here tonight…and we got all the tools we need to build us a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise…now the mighty E Street Band is here in your town tonight and we are committed to bring down the power of the music on you (crowd cheers) but, Stockholm, we need you to bring the noise! (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…” [* “It’s not raining tonight.”]
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Working on a Dream”**

“It’s good…it’s good…I fell down last night but it’s good…(?)…” [Bruce is responding to a sign saying “How is your ass?” – he slipped and fell during “American Land” the night before.]
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, towards the end of “Hungry Heart”**

“This is for the Queen of the supermarket (chuckles)…” [The song was requested by a seven-year-old Laura via a sign shaped like a crown.]
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Queen of the Supermarket”**

“(A kid sings the chorus)…Oh, you’re better than yesterday, alright, come on, band, kick that thing…” [The kid singing is the aforementioned Laura, I guess, since she reportedly sang during “Waitin’” the night before.]
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, middle of “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day”)**

““How many shows must a man walk down before he listens to ‘Lost in the Flood’?” (crowd cheers) very rarely played “Lost in the Flood”…I think we remember it (chuckles) we’ll find out – go ahead, Roy…”
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Lost in the Flood”**

“Alright…thank you, thank you, thank you…thank you so much… what a great night…alright, yes…this is, uh…back home we come from…a situation where we’re having some of the toughest economic times since the Great Depression, there’s millions of people who’ve lost their jobs, hundreds of thousands of people just over the past several months…this was a song written by Stephen Foster in 1855…it’s called “Hard times come again no more”…”
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Hard Times”**

“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight, Stockholm! (crowd cheers)… (…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the phenomenon, Jay Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) and the biggest and best looking man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Stockholm! (crowd cheers) Stockholm! (crowd cheers) Sverige! (crowd cheers) Sverige! (crowd cheers) Sverige! (crowd cheers) Sverige! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) ...”
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “American Land”**

“The night was young, the moon was yellow…and the leaves came tumbling down… (…) Steve, I gotta go home, man (?) I can’t feel my fingers, I’m telling you, I can’t feel my fingers (Steve: “Ah, that’s alright, that’s alright”) I think it’s, I think it’s quitting time (Steve: “No way, Baby”) if it ain’t splitting time and it ain’t quitting time, then what time is it, Steve? (crowd: “Bosstime”)(Steve: “It’s Bosstime”)…”
 * 05.06.09 Stockholm, Sweden, intro to “Glory Days”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//